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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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All action is vicarious faith.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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